| The Darkness |
 | | Developer(s) | Starbreeze Studios | | Publisher(s) | 2K Games | | Engine | Starbreeze Engine (Proprietary) | | Release date(s) | NA June 25, 2007
EU June 29, 2007(360)
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| | Genre(s) | First-person shooter, Third-person action, Psychological horror | | Mode(s) | Single player, Multiplayer | | Rating(s) | ESRB: Mature (17+)
BBFC: 18
PEGI: 18+
OFLC: MA 15+
| | Platform(s) | PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 | | Media | DVD, Blu-ray Disc | | Input | SIXAXIS, Xbox 360 Controller | The Darkness is a first-person shooter video game for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is based on the comic book of the same name, though some changes to the story have been made. The game takes place in modern-day New York City with the player controlling mob hitman Jackie Estacado, who has been possessed by a spirit that calls itself "The Darkness". This spirit gives Estacado supernatural powers that feed off the dark, which he uses to survive assassination attempted by his "Uncle" Paulie. Video games are categorized into genres based on their gameplay. ...
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Gameplay
 A Darkling threatens a passerby while the Creeping Dark tendrils and the player look on The Darkness is a first-person shooter, with the player controlling Jackie Estacado. The game includes a range of modern weapons that become available over the course of the game. However, due to Estacado turning 21 at the very start of the game, the powers of The Darkness become available to the player to kill foes, with some powers not being unlocked until later in the game. The Darkness powers include summoning different types of imp-like "Darklings" that can attack foes; using "Dark Tentacles" to impale foes or break downs walls; using "Creeping Dark" tendrils that sneak along floors, walls, and ceilings to take out foes from a distances; and creating a "Black Hole" that sucks anything nearby into it. Estacado also will come into possession of the "Darkness Guns" that are more powerful than the conventional weapons but consume the Darkness power to fire. These Darkness powers cannot be used when Estacado is in a well-lit area, but do become more powerful in darker conditions; the player is able to shoot out lights to help increase the amount of dark energy available for their attacks. Additionally, by ordering The Darkness to consume the hearts of the victims of the attacks, the player can further increase the effects of the Darkness powers. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...
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The game has several levels based on New York City locales that the player will visit multiple times. A significantly-reduced subway system allows the player to move between levels. While the main plot is primarily linear, requiring the player to visit each level in a certain order, the player can gain side missions from talking with non-player characters that wander the subway stations. For example, one such mission is to win a rigged shell game being run in the subway after getting a tip from another character. Completing submissions earns the player a "Collectible" phone number which can then be used at any phone to unlock additional game media; Collectibles can also be found scattered throughout the level. The Otherworld levels feature Collectibles in the form of unposted postal mail that the player can deliver when back in New York City to unlock the content. A non-player character is a fictional character in a role-playing game whose role is generally created and performed by the gamemaster. ...
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Plot The player takes the role of Jackie Estacado, with the story presented as a future-narrative on the present events observed by the player. On the eve of his 21st birthday, Jackie was targeted for assassination by the don of the New York mafia, "Uncle" Paulie. He finds his body possessed by "the Darkness", an malevolent spirit that has inhabited his family for several generations, with the benefit of Jackie gaining supernatural powers that feeds off the dark. Using these powers, Jackie is able to survive further assassination attempts and track down Paulie, but not before he and the corrupt police chief, Eddie Shrote, kill his girlfriend Jenny and escape. Unable to stop them due to the Darkness, he commits suicide out of sheer emotional stress, noting in the narrative that "That... well, that was the first time I died." He finds himself in the Otherworld, the realm of the Darkness with patchwork undead beings in World War I outfits fighting each other, and physical manifestations of the Four Horsemen. He meets his great-great-grandfather Anthony Estacado, who admits that it was he that brought the Darkness into the family, and tells Jackie how to free himself of the Darkness by invading the castle in the Otherworld and facing the Darkness there. Jackie is interrupted in his journey through the Otherworld and brought back to the living. “The Great War †redirects here. ...
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Once he recovers, he determines that he must dispose of Chief Shrote before he can face Paulie. Chasing Shrote to his apartment and then confiscating a briefcase containing illicit goods in Shrote's ownership and rigging it with an explosive, Jackie is able to lure Shrote out of hiding, but he is shortly captured. After overhearing about a shipment of drugs that a Chicago mob is entrusting to Paulie to handle, Jackie triggers the explosive, killing Shrote and his men along with himself, the narrative noting that "that was the second time I died." Jackie re-awakes in the Otherworld, and lays siege to the Darkness' castle with Anthony's help. Anthony is mortally wounded in the attack, but before he can tell Jackie the last steps needed to free himself from the Darkness, the spirit pulls him away. Jackie faces the Darkness and surprises it by willingly being taken by the Darkness' power, allowing him to fully control the spirit back in the real world. He lays an assault on the drug shipment, causing Paulie to flee to safety of a lighthouse mansion for fear of retribution from the Chicago mob. Jackie takes advantage of a solar eclipse to raid the mansion and finally kill Paulie. The Darkness revels in Jackie's murderous spree, and fully envelopes Jackie, shouting "Now you are mine!!" This article is about astronomical eclipses. ...
In the epilogue, Jackie finds himself in a dream on a bench in Jenny's arms; Jenny explains that they are only allowed a few minutes to be together one last time. Jackie tries to ask how, but Jenny just quiets him, allowing them to enjoy the last moments together before Jackie wakes back up with the screen fading to black.
Characters - Jackie Estacado
- The protagonist of the game and the character controlled by the player. He is a hitman who has found himself under the control of an entity known only as "the Darkness". Voiced by Kirk Acevedo.
- Jenny Romano
- Jackie's girlfriend. The two were both orphans at St. Mary's Orphanage and became close friends there. Jenny has just moved into her own apartment in New York City at the start of the game. Voiced by Lauren Ambrose.
- Uncle Paulie Franchetti
- Don of a New York Mafia gang who deals in drugs and made pacts with the police. Serves as the primary antagonist of the game. Voiced by Dwight Schultz
- Anthony Estacado
- Jackies's great-great-grandfather, trapped in the Otherworld. He claims to have brought the Darkness into the Estacado family. He did this by accepting the Darkness so that he could avoid certain death in the hands of the Germans. Unlike every other denizen of the Otherworld, he does not appear to be one of the undead, although his physical appearance is that of a handsome young man in his mid-to-late twenties and approximately 70 to 80 years or more have passed since he has come to that realm.
- Police Capt. Edward "Eddie" Shrote
- Corrupt Police Captain who is on Paulie's payroll. One of the main antagonists in the game. Voiced by James Mathers.
- The Darkness
- A mysterious force that feeds off the dark and must possess a live human body to exist. The Darkness was introduced to the Estacado family by Jackie's great-grandfather Anthony (with details in the game hinting that this occurred at some time during World War I), and manifests itself in its host when they turn 21. During the game, it sometimes speaks to the player, with its comments earlier in the game being angry and commanding, while its later quips are submissive. Voiced by Mike Patton.
- Butcher Joyce
- Go-to guy for information, a cleaner for the Mafia, and a friend of Jackie (like most of the local mob, he too likes Jackie because he still follows the "old ways" and unfailingly shows repsect to his crime family elders). Butcher Joyce never chooses sides in interfamily disputes (at least not overtly), which explains how he survived so long in the Mafia underground of New York. Helps Jackie with finding Paulie's safe house. Voiced by Mike Starr.
- Aunt Sarah
- She is revealed approximately halfway through the game. Aunt Sarah was one of the only people that cared for Jackie. She has an apartment next to the Green Olive Grove Restaurant, in the Lower East side, which is reached from the Canal St. Station.
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History The game uses television sets located within the game to progress the plot, but they can also be used to view full, licensed content.[1] This content includes the movies To Kill a Mockingbird, The Man with the Golden Arm, and The Street Fighter, the entire 13 part 1936 serial of Flash Gordon, and several "Popeye" and "Gabby" cartoon shorts. According to the developers in an article by Official Xbox Magazine, the copyrights for some of these videos have expired, putting them in public domain and enabling Starbreeze to put them in the game without the need to pay royalties. To Kill a Mockingbird is a 1962 film directed by Robert Mulligan and based on the novel of the same name by Harper Lee. ...
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Top Cow officially announced a Darkness mini-series of comics to go along with the release of the video game while the game was still in development. The series is slated to run for five issues, one for each chapter of the game and will be a retelling of the events of the game. There is also a sixth issue, known as issue 0, which is a prequel to the events of the game.
Jackie's primary antagonist from the comic, The Angelus, does not appear in the game although several images of concept art for the Angelus intended for design in the game does appear in the game's unlockable content section. The Angelus is a comic book antagonist published by Top Cow Productions and first appeared in The Darkness comic in 1997. ...
Demos for this game have been released on the PlayStation Network for PlayStation 3 and on Xbox Live Marketplace for Xbox 360. Icons of the various PSN features PlayStation Network is Sonys free online service provided for use with their PlayStation 3 video game console. ...
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Reception The Darkness received generally favorable reviews from critics. Most praised the single player campaign and the game's graphics across both platforms, but warned readers about unreasonably bad lag in multiplayer sessions and advised to ignore multiplayer altogether until a patch is released.
As of July 7, 2007, the Gamerankings score for The Darkness is 83. [2]. The Metacritic score is also currently 83.[3] is the 188th day of the year (189th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Ban in Singapore The game was banned in Singapore according to the distributor New Era. The reason for this was due to the local censorship board dubbing the game "swear words" and graphic violence.[4] The game had been scheduled for a July release before the ban.
Soundtrack - Music includes: (song - artist)
- Captain Midnight - Tomahawk
- Open Casket (edit) - Closer
- I, Deviant - Insense
- Grind & Rewind - Defleshed
- Empty Threats - Searing I
- It won't stop bleeding - Stained Red
- Rendered In Vain - Zonaria
- A nice day - El Caco
- Substitute - El Caco
- Forever Train - Frame
- Die 5 Times Times 5 - South Ambulance
- Die Toten Core - F.K.Ü.
- Riverbank - Pelle Carlberg
- 7 Days - Acid House Kings
- Say Yes If You Love Me - Acid House Kings
- Last Injection - M.A.N.
- Lucky Star - The Legends
- Try - The21st Impact
- Going Down - Sparzanza
- Zon - dyF1.6
- Pure and White - Joy Serene
- The Hunt - man.machine.industry
- To Hell and Back - man.machine.industry
- Later That Night - Path of no Return
- Black and White - Down and Away
- Once Bitten, Twice Shy - Blinded Colony
- Shoot It In - The Duskfall
Trivia - All the graffiti throughout the game was made by a group of active, but anonymous Swedish graffiti artists. Upon beating the game, the player can see a graffiti "making of", narrated by a Starbreeze employee. He reveals that they intended to use real New York graffiti, but could not do so because of copyright issues. As a product of this the player can find many tags written in Swedish.
- There are numerous references to Tool (band) contained within the graffiti in the game, in particular the song "Rosetta Stoned"[5].
- There are plenty more references to Sweden including a humorous conversation in a bar, and a garage door painted as a Swedish flag.
- The tag "Lizardking" appears a few times in the game, this is the demoscene pseudonym of Gustaf Grefberg, a Starbreeze employee that composed the musical score for several Starbreeze titles.
- It is possible to watch the entire film To Kill a Mockingbird in this game by watching the in-game television.
- It is possible to get robbed, this seems to be completely random and a lot of players play through the game without getting robbed once.
- There are a lot of billboards, posters and fictional adverts in the game. Some of them contain telephone numbers, the player can call these to unlock hidden content like concept art and early screenshots.
- As you are about to sit down with Jenny to watch To Kill a Mockingbird, you will have the option to tell Jenny that you love her. If you choose this option Jackie will say, "Hey, Jenny?" Jenny will say, "Yeah?" To which Jackie replies, "Nothing." Throughout the course of To Kill a Mockingbird, many conversations between Jem and Scout go the same way.
- Before the game's release, it was revealed that there would be two exclusive darkling outfits. One could be obtained in any copy of the game purchased from a retailer in Europe or Australia and the other from a game purchased at GameStop or EB Games. In reality they are not actually exclusive and can be found in any copy of the game by someone who knows the phone numbers that unlock them.
- Mike Patton's performance was not edited, creating the sound effects of The Darkness himself.
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